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Mon, Mar 4, 13 at 20:57
| Moved this past fall, started full time job about a month after we moved. Is it too late to start cone flowers, cosmos, and shasta daisies 25miles north of Cincinnati? |
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| Not at all. Echinacea doesn't require cold treatment, although it might have higher germination rates with some, and neither does Cosmos (I usually sow mine in the Spring, but sowed some for the winter-sowing experiment already). I've never sowed Shasta daisy but assume it's similar to coneflower or Rudbeckia and would germinate fine. There's still plenty of cold weather left in zones 5/6 for those seeds that require cold stratification too. |
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- Posted by tempusflits 5 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 8, 13 at 16:07
| I've even started shasta daisies in summer and then planted then out into the garden in fall. |
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- Posted by thenightingale 6 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 11, 13 at 11:12
| The first time I winter sowed was after learning about it a few years ago in early March. I put out a handful of containers probably halfway or 3/4 of the way through the month, and everything did beautifully, from veg to flowers! I say keep putting them out��"even in summer I'll plant a few so that I have new things to plant (is this an addiction?) in autumn. Go for it! |
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| I'm still putting out containers and will through the end of this month into April. Most of what I'll do from here on out are things like zinnias and sunflowers that I could direct sow, but have better luck shepherding the seeds in a milk container than I do leaving them to battle on their own in the garden. Plus, I still have lots of prep to do in my beds. Why are the weeds always the first to sprout? |
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